JUdy Benjamin was only 67 years old when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, devastating disease His mother and several uncles have all suffered.
Symptoms started slowly; A forgotten phone number, hard to read the newspaper. But Benjamin quickly found reasons to panic after a brain scintigraphy showed damage and an accumulation of amyloid plaque – Alzheimer’s characteristics, progressive neurodegenerative disorder that generally affects memory, thought and behavior.
Now 81 years old, Benjamin is in the middle of a epic cross-country walk to prove to herself for her and others, this reversal of Alzheimer’s symptoms is possible thanks to a specific protocol supported by science – and it is living proof.
Having started his trip on April 5 in San Diego, his hopes to go to Saint Augustine, Florida, October 5. She is accompanied by a support team and a sequence shooting team for a documentary. This week, she celebrated the 1,000 miles touch.
“I was really delighted with the people I met along the way,” said Benjamin The independent . “Everyone knows someone with Alzheimer’s and they are very interested in my story because I reversed my cognitive decline by radically changing my life.”
Arriving at this point has taken a series of small steps and large while Benjamin sailed on his diagnosis. His symptoms started shortly after the death of her own mother of the disease 20 years after her initial diagnosis.
“I worked abroad and I started to worry because I did not remember things – even my own phone number or my skill of locker,” she recalls Digital Fox News. “I got lost in driving, when I’m still really good in the direction.”
Benjamin’s brain analyzes have shown a lot of amyloid plaque – proteins which, when built on the brain, can cause death of nerve cells – and damage to the straight and left parietal areas of his brain. Located behind the frontal lobe of the brain, the parietal lobe helps consciousness of the location and treats your sense of touch, according to the Cleveland clinic.
“I knew it was going downhill very quickly, and I was extremely depressed and in distress on this subject,” she said.
In an attempt to draw a new path to follow, Benjamin met Dr. Dale Bredesen at the request of a friend.
Bredesen, an internationally recognized expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases and the head of sciences of Apollo healthhad developed a protocol to reverse the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s but had not yet tested a patient. He has long believed that Alzheimer’s disease is not only avoidable – it is also reversible.
Thus, Benjamin in search of a treatment at the time, Bredesen was looking for a “zero patient” was Kismet.
Brededsen recalled that Benjamin had taken “abundant notes” during his first appointment because of his bad memory. He followed the recoding protocol (for “inversion of cognitive decline”), which included modifications of the food routine and the exercise of Benjamin, as well as adjustments of his sleep habits and the start -up meditation.
As Bredesen explained to The independent About Recode: “The Bottom Line is that it is a personalized, precision medicine protocol that addresses the drivers specific to each person (so it is based on each person’s lab results), and these drivers are in three major group —energetics (Blood flow, etc.) (from Any of Many Different Causes), and Toxicity (Inorganics, Organics, and Biotoxins) – and Three Leser Groups – Trophic Support (Hormones, Nutrients and Growth Factors), Neurotransmitters (such as Acetylcholine, which is necessary for memory), and stress.
Bredesen has also noted that despite the published documentation of ways whose cognitive decline can be reversed, the vast majority of people remain ignored that it is often possible. The treatment is also more likely to be effective if it started very early. He documented his research in several books, including The end of Alzheimer’s And The ageless brain.
Together, the pair worked to maintain its progress. She has become a brain health coach and yoga instructor and, as Bredesen described it, “a survivor of cognitive decline, and a remarkable model for anyone interested in healthy aging”.
“Very very few people are able to walk 3000 miles, from one ocean to another. But for someone to do it that is 81 years old and has reversed their cognitive decline after a diagnosis of early Alzheimer’s in 2012, is really historic,” told Bredesen The independent.
“She does something I couldn’t do, and most of the people I know. She is really an inspiration. ”
However, Benjamin’s message is simple – offering the hope that the cognitive decline can be avoided and reversed.
“It’s really the goal of my trip,” she said The independent. “And also to show that you can be 81 years old and walk all of this one step at a time.”
